My main field of interest is using synthetic chemistry to prepare novel macromolecular materials, with a particular focus on the unique properties from incorporating inorganic moieties (P, Si, B, and transition metals) in macromolecules. While even nature makes use of inorganic polymers, for example, DNA phosphorus backbone, the possibilities of inorganic polymers remain to be fully exploited in the world of synthetic polymeric materials. While our focus is on fundamentally novel synthetic materials, with applications ranging from degradable drug carriers and nanomotors through to photolithography, we are also conducting a number of industrially funded research projects into high performance materials. Parallel to this I am cofounder and CSO of a multi prize winning spin-out company NP Life Science Technologies, opens an external URL in a new window for the commercialization of degradable polyphosphazenes, which licenses patented materials developed in our research laboratory.

Bottle-brush polymers Chem Eur J 2020, opens an external URL in a new window and Macro Rapid Comm 2016, opens an external URL in a new window

Photocleavable polymers Chem Eur J 2019, opens an external URL in a new window and Angew. Chem. In. Ed. 2017, opens an external URL in a new window

Biodegradable polymers ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, opens an external URL in a new window and ACS Macro Lett. 2017, opens an external URL in a new window

Polyphosphazenes Chem. Soc. Rev. 2016, 45, 5200, opens an external URL in a new window and Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2014, opens an external URL in a new window

Stimuli responsive polymers Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2019, opens an external URL in a new window.and Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2019, opens an external URL in a new window

Polymer therapeutics Chem Eur J 2017, opens an external URL in a new window and Dalton. Trans. 2017, opens an external URL in a new window